Job summary
- Main area
- Legal Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 5 months (Ends on the 31st of January 2025)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 249 - 6460340
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Western Hospital
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/08/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Legal Services and Inquest Manager
Band 7
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
5 Month - Fixed Term Contract
A fantastic and exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, experienced and enthusiastic individual to work within the Insights and Learning team at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon as the Legal Services and Inquest Manager.
Would you like to be part of a dynamic and highly motivated team to improve patient care, whilst ensuring effective working relationships across the trust. The ideal candidate must have a flexible proactive attitude as they will work alongside clinical teams across organisational and professional boundaries to support the delivery of high-quality patient centered care.
You should have experience and understanding in all aspects of healthcare law, demonstrable organisational skills and be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Previous experience of working within a health care setting would be desirable.
A flexible approach is needed to manage the changing picture of healthcare legal services in line with the National agenda.
You will join an existing Legal Services and Inquest Manager to support the service for a period of maternity leave cover.
GWH is in an excellent location, convenient for the M4, surrounded by the Wiltshire countryside and with good links to the Cotswolds, Bath, Oxford and Bristol.
Main duties of the job
- To ensure a legal services framework agreement is in place and is up-to-date.
- To provide healthcare legal advice to all groups of staff based on the analysis and interpretation of complex information to enable the Trust to make informed decisions, instructing Trust solicitors where formal advice is needed for highly complex matters in accordance with the Trust Protocol for Accessing Legal Services.
- Using specialist knowledge interpret existing and new legislation to keep the Trust Board and Senior Management updated on relevant legislation and legal framework.
- To ensure that medical, nursing and managerial staff affected by claims and inquests are kept updated with regards to progress, decision-making and that they are fully prepared and supported.
- To liaise with Trust solicitors, defendant solicitors, the NHS Resolution, the Coroner’s court, Police and other external bodies as appropriate.
- To present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information relating to legal matters to groups of staff and senior managers at meetings or in other circumstances, overcoming often significant barriers to acceptance in potentially hostile or antagonistic environments.
- To provide regular reports to the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee, the Executive Committee and to the Patient Quality Committee on legal services, legal claims and inquests.
Working for our organisation
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
- Service We will put our patients first
- Teamwork We will work together
- Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
- Respect We will act with integrity
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work with the wider Inquests and Learning team to implement and embed the Patient Safety Incident Review Framework in relation to legal services.
Please see attached JD for full responsibilities.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent
- Legal diploma (post-graduate level)
- Relevant IT packages
- Claims management Training
Desirable criteria
- Claims management diploma
- Risk management qualification
- Management/leadership training
- Project management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Legal Services
- Claims management
- Inquests
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Previous Health and Safety Role
- Previous risk management experience in any setting
- Previous experience in clinical governance
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- Confident public speaker
- Dealing with complex/contentious issues
- Project management skills
- Analytical skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Winter
- Job title
- Head of Insights and Learning
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01793605391
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